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Domestic workers rally in Sacramento, Calif. earlier this year for the "Domestic Worker Bill of Rights," signed into law Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown. The measure allows domestic workers, many of them immigrants, to be paid for overtime.
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Immigration reform framework takes shape - MSNBC Another possible deal in the works supported by House Judiciary Committee chair Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) "would go something like this. Undocumented immigrants would get permission to live and work in the country if they met certain requirements. But, except perhaps for some who arrived as children, they would neither be eligible for a special 'path to citizenship' nor would they be blocked from applying for a green card and eventual citizenship through existing channels."

Guatemala massacre is focus of Moreno Valley man's immigration trial - Los Angeles Times Jorge Sosa, a Guatemalan immigrant, is accused of participating in a massacre when he was a soldier during that country's civil war three decades ago: "Prosecutors said Sosa fired into the well where the bodies had been dumped and also threw in a grenade. Years later, the remains of more than 160 would be removed from the well." Sosa is charged with lying on his U.S. citizenship application.

Colo. immigrants face uncertainty after floods - Associated Press After the devastating recent floods in Colorado, unauthorized immigrants have "returned to their mobile home parks in flood-ravaged Colorado to find that there was little left to salvage." Unlike some other victims, they have no flood insurance, and their lack of legal status bars them from federal aid.

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